Skip to main content
AI Choice Engine

Model comparison

Amazon Nova 2 Lite vs Amazon Nova 2 Pro

Two Amazon tiers compared on the figures that decide which one a workload actually needs.

Amazon Nova 2 Lite: profile checked October 25, 2026Amazon Nova 2 Pro: profile checked October 25, 2026Individual provider fields may changeEvidence confidence: Medium — see receipts below

Amazon

Amazon Nova 2 Lite

Balanced

vs

Amazon

Amazon Nova 2 Pro

Balanced

AI model capability comparison
SpecificationAmazon Nova 2 LiteAmazon Nova 2 Pro
ProviderAmazonAmazon
TierBalancedBalanced
Context window1M1M
Max outputNot verifiedUnverifiedNot verifiedUnverified
Input / 1M tokensWinner: $0.30$1.25
Output / 1M tokensWinner: $2.50$10
WeightsClosedClosed
ParametersNot verifiedUnverifiedNot verifiedUnverified
Reasoning levelslow, medium, highlow, medium, high
Modalitiestext, image, videotext, image, video, audio
API model idamazon.nova-2-lite-v1:0Not verifiedUnverified
ReleasedDecember 2, 2025December 2, 2025

Dates beside benchmark scores refer to the linked source’s publication or capture date unless that source explicitly states when it measured the result. A shared URL alone does not establish comparable runs; unverified setups are marked. Prices are USD per million tokens at standard rates, excluding batch and caching discounts. Values we could not confirm from the provider are shown as “Not verified” rather than estimated.

Pricing tiers

Amazon Nova 2 Lite: Bedrock Global Standard $0.30/$2.50 per MTok, cached input $0.075 and cache writes $0. Single-region $0.33/$2.75, cached $0.0825 and writes $0. Global Flex/Batch $0.15/$1.25; regional $0.165/$1.375. Global Flex cache reads $0.0375; regional $0.04125. Global Priority $0.525/$4.375, cached $0.13125; regional $0.5775/$4.8125, cached $0.144375. Grounding is separately $0.03/request. Complete native offer published October 16, 2026; these token meters take effect October 1 and bill per 1K tokens, converted here to per million. Customization, provisioned capacity and account-specific routing remain separate.

Amazon Nova 2 Pro: Bedrock Global Standard $1.25/$10 per MTok; single-region $1.375/$11. Global Flex/Batch $0.625/$5 and regional $0.6875/$5.50. Global Priority $2.1875/$17.50 and regional $2.40625/$19.25. These are native Nova 2.0 Pro on-demand meters in the complete offer published October 16, 2026, with October 1 effective dates; not custom-model, provisioned-throughput or training prices. No Pro cached-input meter is present in this capture. Billing meters do not establish GA or account access.

BalancedRecord checked October 25, 2026

Amazon Nova 2 Lite

Amazon’s hosted Nova 2 Lite reasoning model for everyday business workflows, with a 1M-token context window.

Best for

  • Document processing
  • Business automation
  • Bedrock integrations

Watch out

Extended thinking is optional and off by default. Low/medium/high controls apply when enabled; high forbids maxTokens, temperature and topP overrides. The model card advertises 64K output, but the high-thinking guide describes outputs exceeding 65K and sometimes reaching 128K, so no universal hard output cap is asserted. Reasoning tokens are billed as output. Use the route-specific US/EU/JP/global ID supported by your account; documents are inputs and text is generated.

BalancedRecord checked October 25, 2026

Amazon Nova 2 Pro

Amazon's closed Nova 2 Pro preview accepts text, images, video and speech and generates text; its launch announcement specifies a one-million-token context.

Best for

  • AWS-native workloads
  • Multimodal
  • Long-context

Watch out

Preview access was announced for Nova Forge customers through their AWS account team. Current account access, a stable API model ID and a hard output cap remain unverified. Launch documentation names low/medium/high thinking; the current detailed thinking guide covers Lite only, so do not transfer its request rules to Pro. The October 1 Artificial Analysis 14-point Pro row is an estimate and is withheld. Omission from a current model list does not prove retirement.

When the cheaper one wins

Amazon Nova 2 Lite is cheaper on output at $2.50 per million tokens against $10 for Amazon Nova 2 Pro — about 4.0×. Use the cheaper tier for classification, extraction, summarisation, and any task where the expensive model’s extra score does not change the accepted output. The expensive one only pays if your hardest task actually fails on the cheap tier. This compares standard short-context token rates, not total cost per accepted task. Include input, cache, context tiers, schedules, retries and review in your pilot.

Run the model picker

Evidence confidence: Medium

How strong and complete the evidence behind this comparison is — not a prediction of which model is better.

  • Pricing verified on both sides — Input and output rates are verified for both models.
  • 3/5 core specs verified on both sides — Not published for at least one side: max output, parameter count.
  • No directly aligned benchmark setup — No benchmark has matching cited sources, source dates, units, effort and recorded run details on both models.
  • Verified within the last 90 days — Older of the two catalog checks was 1 day ago.
  • Both models carry source citations — Each side has at least two catalog sources on record.

Source receipts

Each catalog figure was checked against the provider or an independent second source on the date shown.

Related comparisons

Diving deeper on one model? Amazon Nova 2 Lite · Amazon Nova 2 Pro

Common questions

Amazon Nova 2 Lite vs Amazon Nova 2 Pro

Answered from the verified figures on this page rather than general guidance.

Is Amazon Nova 2 Lite or Amazon Nova 2 Pro cheaper for input?
Amazon Nova 2 Lite is cheaper at $0.30 per million input tokens, against $1.25 for Amazon Nova 2 Pro — roughly 4.2× the price. Estimate both input and output token volume for your workload. These are base rates; Amazon Nova 2 Lite: Bedrock Global Standard $0.30/$2.50 per MTok, cached input $0.075 and cache writes $0. Single-region $0.33/$2.75, cached $0.0825 and writes $0. Global Flex/Batch $0.15/$1.25; regional $0.165/$1.375. Global Flex cache reads $0.0375; regional $0.04125. Global Priority $0.525/$4.375, cached $0.13125; regional $0.5775/$4.8125, cached $0.144375. Grounding is separately $0.03/request. Complete native offer published October 16, 2026; these token meters take effect October 1 and bill per 1K tokens, converted here to per million. Customization, provisioned capacity and account-specific routing remain separate. Amazon Nova 2 Pro: Bedrock Global Standard $1.25/$10 per MTok; single-region $1.375/$11. Global Flex/Batch $0.625/$5 and regional $0.6875/$5.50. Global Priority $2.1875/$17.50 and regional $2.40625/$19.25. These are native Nova 2.0 Pro on-demand meters in the complete offer published October 16, 2026, with October 1 effective dates; not custom-model, provisioned-throughput or training prices. No Pro cached-input meter is present in this capture. Billing meters do not establish GA or account access.
Is Amazon Nova 2 Lite or Amazon Nova 2 Pro cheaper for output?
Amazon Nova 2 Lite is cheaper at $2.50 per million output tokens, against $10 for Amazon Nova 2 Pro — roughly 4.0× the price. Estimate both input and output token volume for your workload. These are base rates; Amazon Nova 2 Lite: Bedrock Global Standard $0.30/$2.50 per MTok, cached input $0.075 and cache writes $0. Single-region $0.33/$2.75, cached $0.0825 and writes $0. Global Flex/Batch $0.15/$1.25; regional $0.165/$1.375. Global Flex cache reads $0.0375; regional $0.04125. Global Priority $0.525/$4.375, cached $0.13125; regional $0.5775/$4.8125, cached $0.144375. Grounding is separately $0.03/request. Complete native offer published October 16, 2026; these token meters take effect October 1 and bill per 1K tokens, converted here to per million. Customization, provisioned capacity and account-specific routing remain separate. Amazon Nova 2 Pro: Bedrock Global Standard $1.25/$10 per MTok; single-region $1.375/$11. Global Flex/Batch $0.625/$5 and regional $0.6875/$5.50. Global Priority $2.1875/$17.50 and regional $2.40625/$19.25. These are native Nova 2.0 Pro on-demand meters in the complete offer published October 16, 2026, with October 1 effective dates; not custom-model, provisioned-throughput or training prices. No Pro cached-input meter is present in this capture. Billing meters do not establish GA or account access.
Which has the larger context window, Amazon Nova 2 Lite or Amazon Nova 2 Pro?
Both accept about 1M tokens of context, so document length will not decide between them.
Do Amazon Nova 2 Lite and Amazon Nova 2 Pro support the same reasoning levels?
Both expose these named effort settings: "low", "medium", "high". The same labels do not guarantee equal compute budgets or behavior across providers. Compare quality, latency and cost on your own tasks.
Should I use Amazon Nova 2 Lite or Amazon Nova 2 Pro?
Both are classified in our balanced tier; this editorial grouping does not imply equal capability. Amazon Nova 2 Lite is a candidate for document processing; Amazon Nova 2 Pro is a candidate for aws-native workloads. Compare accuracy, tool reliability, latency and cost on representative tasks.

Next step

Choosing between them

The verified figures that separate this pair, computed from the catalog rather than restated boilerplate.

  • Input price: Amazon Nova 2 Lite costs $0.30 per 1M tokens versus $1.25 for Amazon Nova 2 Pro — a 4.2x difference at the headline tier.
Run the model pickerEstimate stack costAll model comparisons

Choosing a harness rather than a model — Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, Windsurf, or Lovable? Compare agentic harnesses · Latest releases.